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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Poet'sUnited Midweek Motif ~ A Man's Day

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! ” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.” ― Bruce Lee

Midweek Motif ~ A Man's Day

International Men's Day occurs on November 19th, but I didn't know that when I planned this prompt. You can read about it HERE or on Wikipedia. I chose this motif because I want so much to read a loving phenomenal man poem. And given so much news lately about men victimizing women, I thought we might foreground men who haven't committed crimes against women.

Your Challenge: Let your poem show how a specific man is special. Choose anyone you want--famous or not, living or dead.

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Good morning and thank you for the challenge - a 21 year old cat now that is a wonder...i am not sure how blue we veered but perhaps men and women can be special for all the wrong reasons - or all the right reasons...we hope for the latter in the next 21 years!

Ha, a very timely prompt, Susan, given the most phenomenal man in my world just pulled through a life-threatening medical event. And yes, with all of the rapings and killings, it is good to reflect on the fact that the world also is filled with decent, honorable, gentle men. Great prompt.

Wow, a 21 yr old kitty--how luck you are! My 14 yr old kitty is curled on my legs at the moment and that is heavenly! The first line of the Shakespeare quote today struck me with such sarcasm, but I see we are honoring men today, so I will keep away from the sarcasm ;-) Thanks for the great prompt. Keep enjoying that kitty, Susan!

There was a period of my life when I couldn't see anything positive in men. That may be when I began to befriend cats. But I took this quote of Hamlet's out of context. His next lines are: " And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so." And he's speaking in prose, not poetry--pretend crazy? So it may be sarcasm, at least it could be performed that way.

Yes, I had a period like that too, but I have sons now and I think men are awesome :-) Susan, out of curiosity I looked out how to discern how old (in human years) a cat is....and yours is 109 years old. Did you know that? WHOA! You've got quite the senior kittizen on your hands.

Yes. I will fix it. But you are entering the name of your blog when you should be entering the link for the specific poem. That would work better. Each week that I have fixed it, I erased this address which doesn't work in a linky, and replaced it with the real link--lucky I found it. Try that next time, OK? Voila!

Your link for this poem is: http://somethingsithinkabout-annell-annell.blogspot.com/2015/03/poets-united-midweek-motif-ordinary-man.html--You fnd it by clicking the title and then copying it from the address bar. Good luck with that! But I fixed today's.

The past year has been quite difficult traumatic for me and blogging became way down on my list of what was important in my life. However there is a wind of change (as things settle) and I thank you for your inspiration. It is time to take my life back.

hi susan..what a lovely prompt..I enjoyed writing for this one. I have been unable to participate in PU regularly as I am having a lot of trouble with my laptop..it's working for right now...well I hope it gives me some time to visit others..:)

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